Pork Belly Buns with Spicy Mayo, Scallions, and Pickled Bean Sprouts

These buns combine spicy mayo, scallions, and pickled bean sprouts. They'd also be great with some hoisin sauce and sliced scallions or sweet Japanese mayo and shredded lettuce.

Taiwanese Pork Belly Buns (Gua Bao)

True Taiwanese pork belly buns have five defining components: the fluffy steamed bun, tender braised pork belly, pickled mustard greens, fresh cilantro, and powdered peanuts. All combined, it's a messy, colorful, glorious snack of salty, sweet, pungent, and fresh flavors, with multiple textures to boot.

Bowl-Steamed Pork Belly

Chinese-style pork belly steamed in a bowl with pickles and chilies until tender.

Instant Pot Braised Pork Buns

Instant Pot Braised Pork Buns are a revelation. Fall-apart pork shoulder comes together quickly in an Instant Pot, and it's served in a fluffy steamed bun.

Chinese Barbecue Pork From 'The Meat Hook Meat Book'

Pork belly has been enjoying its 15 minutes of fame for the last, what, 7 years or so? And no wonder: pork fat tastes good, and as every bacon-lover knows, pork belly is wonderfully fatty. This recipe, from Tom Mylan's The Meat Hook Meat Book, couldn't be easier, and lands you with luscious, wobbly, sweet-and-savory hunks of pork that are as good as any in Chinatown.

Sheng Jian Bao (Pan-Fried Pork Soup Dumplings)

Xiao long bao, Shanghai-style soup dumplings, have become legendary for good reason, but so far their doughier pan-fried cousins called sheng jian bao remain much less well-known here in the States. If you love XLB, you need to try sheng jian bao.

Chinese Pork Belly with Pickled Mustard Greens - The Woks of Life

This show-stopping Chinese Braised Pork Belly with Pickled Mustard Greens (酸菜卤肉饭) is savory, tangy, and perfect over rice.

Chinese Steamed Pork Buns

Pillowy soft steamed buns filled with a sweet, savoury saucy pork filling. Homemade Chinese Pork Buns are truly just like what you get at dim sum / yum cha!

Pretzel Bao With Sweet Sesame-Hot Mustard Pork

German-Chinese fusion may sound strange, but when pillowy pretzel buns meet bao, and mustard-slathered roasted pork meats char siu, it works. Chinese hot mustard, sesame paste, and honey make a flavor-packed change-up from the traditional char siu sauce, while a special Chinese bread-making trick makes the pretzel buns even more moist and tender. It's impossible not to love this Deutsch version of a Dim Sum classic.

Steamed Buns With Simmered Daikon and Shiitake, Pickled Bean Sprouts, and Spicy Mayonnaise (Vegan)

Vegan Chinese steamed buns filled with juicy simmered daikon and shiitake mushrooms along with a spicy mayonnaise and pickled mung bean sprouts.